When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

I wonder if a fish'sOne and only wish isThat other fish will never say, "This fish is sure delicious!

Destiny is the point where your circumstances and your actions coincide.

Learn from the past, live in the present and create your future.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

A translation can never equal the original; it can approach it, and its quality can only be judged as to accuracy by how close it gets.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

On the drive we talked easily, but we did make a small detour. After pulling into a rest stop, we made out like teenagers.

The Congress is a power-oriented party.